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  • Xbox Pro for $299.99 at target stores
    By Gadgetboy on July 11th, 2008 | No Comments Comments
    The Xbox 360 price drop has pretty much gone official, with Target offering an in-store price of $299.99. The only thing weird about this is that it’s not the rumored 60GB version that we thought was coming, so it’s possible that Target is just clearing out old inventory for the new SKU? We won’t know anything for certain until someone from Microsoft gets up on stage and says it. Or until they put out a press release. [Target] Share and Enjoy: ...
  • The Atlas Mini 3-Channel R/C Helicopter
    By Gadgetboy on July 3rd, 2008 | No Comments Comments
    Check out this fun  geeky  toy, The Atlas Mini 3-Channel R/C Helicopter. Three is almost always better than two. It’s true with donuts, gigabytes of memory and of course R/C helicopter channels. Now Silverlit, the company who originally created the small R/C copter fad has released a new easy-to-fly 3-channel copter. Traditionally small R/C copters can’t hover in place and are always moving forward slowly. Now with the addition of a third channel in the Atlas copter from Silverlit you can control the forward motion of the copter in addition to right/left rotation and moving up/down. Hov...
  • ampbot: like a robot on a segway with a boom box
    By Gadgetboy on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments Comments
    Hot off the presses is the A.M.P.Bot, a unique roller-bot that moves around using a gyroscopic balancing system that works much like the Segway Personal Transporter. A.M.P. stands for “Automated Musical Personality”. That’s because the wheeled robot can follow you around and play your tunes wherever you go. When set to tracking mode, the robot will even keep tabs on your location and keep the speakers facing you at all times. The self-balancing 29-inch tall robot rolls along courtesy of a piezoelectronic gyroscope which keeps it from tipping over on its narrow 2-wheel base. There’s al...
  • Icon A5: Your own personal plane
    By Gadgetboy on June 15th, 2008 | No Comments Comments
    This beauty will cost you $139,000 and it can take off and land on water and/or dry land. The controls are more like a car than an airplane, which should make it easy for you to get around. It’s fold up wings make it easy to store this baby in a garage or even tow it behind your car while on vacation. It has a 32 foot wingspan otherwise. It should be available for sale in 2010. It’s the ideal vehicle for the traveler of the future. Remember, we were supposed to be flying around in our own planes by now. The plane conforms to the FAA’s new Light Sport Aircraft category, which means that ...

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